Jubba Airways (Kenya)
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| IATA code : | 6Y |
| ICAO code : | JBW |
| Call sign : | AIRJUB |
| Founding: | 2008 |
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Nairobi , Kenya
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| Home airport : | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport |
| IATA prefix code : | 535 |
| Management: | Abdullahi Warsame ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | about 300 |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.jubbaairways.com |
Jubba Airways is a Kenyan airline based in Nairobi and based at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport there . It was founded in 2008 by the owners of the same name, Jubba Airways , which at that time was based in the United Arab Emirates , but what they see as Somali .
history
The first company founded under the name Jubba Airways had already set up a flight connection from Sharjah Airport to Mogadishu in May 1998 . However, the company did not have an Air Operator Certificate (AOC), so it hired various Kyrgyz airlines to carry out flight operations. In addition to the international connection to Mogadishu, Jubba Airways increasingly offered flight services within Somalia with rented aircraft from the early 2000s.
With the aim of getting their own AOC, the owners founded another airline in 2008 under the same name, but based in Nairobi, Kenya . At the beginning of 2009, the Kenyan aviation authority initially only issued a permit for international charter flights . For this reason, the Kenyan company operated a charter business for passengers and cargo that was largely independent of the flight operations of the main company until 2011 with around 40 employees and two leased Boeing 737-200s.
With effect from January 14, 2011, the Kenyan company finally also received approval for international scheduled flights from Nairobi to Djibouti , Jeddah , Dubai and Entebbe . The line rights initially limited to one year were then extended. The older company in Dubai then began to gradually transfer its scheduled flight operations to the Kenyan company. On June 26, 2014, the approval was extended to flights within Kenya and additional international connections such as from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam , Juba and Tel Aviv .
In February 2015, the owners of Jubba Airways and Daallo Airlines from Djibouti founded a holding company called the African Airways Alliance , into which they brought their airlines. The old brand names will continue to be used for flight operations. For political reasons, Jubba Airways and one other company were ordered by Somalia to suspend their flights on the Mogadishu to Hargeisa route from February 22, 2016.
fleet
As of February 2018, the Jubba Airways fleet consists of four aircraft with an average age of 26.4 years.
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks |
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| Airbus A320-200 | 1 | inactive | |
| Airbus A321-100 | 1 | operated by Yanair , inactive | |
| Boeing 737-200 | 1 | ||
| Fokker 50 | 1 | ||
| total | 4th | - |
Trivia
- Jubba Airways was named after the Juba River or the fertile region of the same name in southern Somalia .
See also
Web links
- Website of the Jubba Airways (English)
- Website of the charter airline Jubba Airways (Kenya) , as of 2011, (English)
- Photos of Jubba Airways on airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Company Profile ( Memento from September 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). From: jubbaairways.com , accessed September 26, 2016.
- ↑ About Us ( Memento from April 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). From: www.jubbaairways.co.ke (outdated, as of 2011), accessed on September 26, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Jubba Airways Ltd In: Kenya Gazette , March 4, 2011 in the Kenya Law Archives , accessed on August 24, 2016 (English).
- ^ Regional airlines merge as Somali airspace draws competition. In: Goobjoog News. February 17, 2015, accessed April 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Somalia to suspend Somaliland flights as tensions grow on ch-aviation , February 4, 2016, accessed on July 18, 2016 (English).
- ^ Jubba Airways Kenya fleet details. In: airfleets.net. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .